Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for MAY 2014

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May delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 34th month of detailed daily data recording.

The times reported below do not take into account the 3 minutes and 59 second allowance that QR's service contract to TRANSLink allows.
A Sunshine Coast, Rosewood or Gold Coast train e.g. can be up to 5 minutes and 59 seconds late and still considered statistically to be 'on-time'.

All times shown below are actual arrival times, all times taken from when train becomes stationary, and before doors open.
NO times are rounded up.

Under my system, early arrival times at destinations are actually subtracted from the TTL (total time lost) figure,
in addition, arrival times less than 2 minutes late are NOT added to these figures.
Only when services are 2 minutes late or more, will the TTL figure increase.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
I believe that Queensland Rail do a superb job given the extreme infrastructure limitations on the Sunshine Coast line.
Our 2 new train services may have longer express legs - but they take just as much time (Roma St to Nambour) as our other shorter express leg services.


The major factor required to permanently improve the line is rail duplication to Nambour, and, at a cost benefit ratio of 2.285, it's great value for money.
Astonishingly, rail congestion between Caboolture and Nambour was identified as "a major overall impediment" to the ENTIRE 1668 km North Coast Line from Brisbane to Cairns.
Also astonishingly, 42% of our daily train services are in fact rail buses, 26 per day - 13 (40.63%) northbound and 13 (43.33%) southbound.
These buses traverse the road network acting as trains due to the congestion of the predominately single track line.
The 44% figure has been revised down to 42% (actual 41.98%) upon the 2 new services beginning on 20 January 2014

UPDATED DAILY
Is it more reliable?
See for yourself by the growing list below;

: this symbol denotes a service without toilet facilities, or with 'out of order' toilet facilities.
Re: Toilets; should I forget to check their status, the default has been to always assume that they are working and in order.
This check ONLY applies to the front 3 carriages in the direction of travel.

Individual monthly performance summaries found here: --> http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=7184.0
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Thursday May 01, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable

Thursday May 01, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday May 02, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable

Friday May 02, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes late 
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Monday May 05, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable

Monday May 05, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable
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Tuesday May 06, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 1 minute early   10 seconds actual

Tuesday May 06, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday May 07, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time 

Wednesday May 07, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable
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Thursday May 08, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable

Thursday May 08, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Friday May 09, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 1 minute early   26 seconds actual (when train comes to a stop and before doors open)

Friday May 09, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Monday May 12, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Monday May 12, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday May 13, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 6 minutes late

Tuesday May 13, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early  15 seconds actual
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Thursday May 15, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 1 minute early  ran express Northgate to Bowen Hills and used eastern (inbound) track. Arrived at Platform 2 (normally P6).

Thursday May 15, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Friday May 16, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable

Friday May 16, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Monday May 19, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Monday May 19, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable
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Tuesday May 20, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time 

Tuesday May 20, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Wednesday May 21, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time 

Wednesday May 21, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 6 minutes late
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Thursday May 22, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   just, line ball. 

Thursday May 22, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Friday May 23, 2014
5:50 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time 

Friday May 23, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes late
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Monday May 26, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time 

Monday May 26, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable
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Tuesday May 27, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Tuesday May 27, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time 
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Wednesday May 28, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Wednesday May 28, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early  literally just one second before 6:48pm, so technically 1 minute early.
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Thursday May 29, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Thursday May 29, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday May 30, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time 

Friday May 30, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable